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, AURORA MEETING ENDS « Spring Racing at Exposition Park Interesting and Profitable. ♦ Burning Up Continues on His Winning Way in Taking Looking Forward Handicap. « AURORA, 111., May 23.— Exposition Park closed its gates for the 1931 racing season with the running of a good eight-race program today. Regardless of the fact that poor weather prevailed for the major portion of the session, the meeting has been a financial success, and, while the horses performing have been mostly platers, the racing has been in the main interesting. Friday, May 15, was the outstanding day from a financial standpoint, while on opening day and each Saturday the handle in the mutuel department was quite heavy. General manager Ed Carruthers has elaborate plans for the improvement of the plant for next season. It is his intention to enlarge the clubhouse and improve the racing strip before the 1932 opening. It is likely that all profits realized this year will be put into improvements. The 1931 meeting at Exposition Park gave mute evidence that the fans of the Chicago district are eager for racing, and Washington Park seems to be in for a banner meeting. While several of the stables, embracing the better grade of horses, will be shipped to the Homewood course, the majority of the racers that have been in action at the Aurora course will be shipped to minor tracks. Several carloads will get away for Bainbridge tomorrow, while others will go to Winnipeg, Kansas City and Danville. Burning Up, Mrs. E. Denemarks fleet son of Black Toney — Beach Talk, scored his third victory of the meeting when he defeated one of the best fields of the meeting in the Looking Forward Handicap, which had a value of ,200. The colt was much the best, finishing five lengths in advance of Celtic Prince, which in turn was a nose in front of Ellice as the wire was passed. Supreme Sweet was fourth and the favored Maya was beaten off. Ellice set the pace, with Burning Up always within striking distance. When the Continued on twenty-first page. J c c * t i ] T ! t c i g c t l i i I F f t ■ ■ j t * * to c d s ° of 8 1] In * J t i * ■ * s AURORA MEETING ENDS Continued from first page. stretch was reached Ellice began to show signs of tiring and jockey Jones went to work on Burning Up in earnest. When called upon the Denemark colt soon got to the front and led easily through the last eighth. Celtic Prince ran well and Ellice had speed, but Maya was the disappointment of the race. He appeared slightly lame going to the post and was outrun all the way. Tbe winner ran the six furlongs distance in the creditable time of 1:12%. The management was favored with greatly improved weather for the final days sport and the track, for the first time in several days, was fast. A crowd of about 12,000 was present, the club house being especially well filled. Marshall Seth, the favorite, accounted for the opening race in an easy manner. Off well, he followed the pace of Aspinala closely to the stretch, then went to the head i-t the large field and had little trouble remaining in front to the finish. Orestes II. finished in game fashion, to earn second place and Paul Revere was third. Twelve went to the post. Alamae and The Dipper staged a hard fight in the second race, and the former was the winner by a half length. The Dipper set the pace, but Alamae came fast in the stretch under hard riding by apprentice Rogers, and outgamed him in the last sixteenth. Coy was third. Alamae was well backed. Sage Fire was the third straight favorite win. The son of Campfire, dropped into cheaper company, won the third race in a driving finish from Blind Love, with Brook-sie third. Blind Love, making her first start the meeting, set the pace and showed a game effort, but Sage Fire wore her down the final furlong. Thomas Seth made it four out of five for the favorites when he won the fifth race Jockey Richard sent him to the front at the start, and he was never in serious danger after drawing away from Tangram on the far turn. Tangram held second place safe, and Jennifer, carrying light weight, was third. The race was over one mile and seventy yards.
